LESSONS OUT OF DOORS. 119

but smile when she saw Bolton, Burnham, and Merri-
man, with coats off, and faces flushed with expectation,
pressing around Donald, beseeching him to furnish
them with some strawberry plants to set out in their
beds. It so happened that King Donald was not in
the best humour with them by reason of a trampling
down of his newly sown turnip-beds, he therefore held
out some time against these requests, At length, how-
ever, Carl entered the garden, and joined in the petition,
upon which the’old man instantly relented. |

‘““What is the reason, Donald,” said Helen, “ that
you always seem so partial to the German?”

“Because he 7s a German, miss. I mean, because
he is a foreigner. I was once a new-comer in this land
myself, and I ‘know the heart of a stranger,’ as the
Bible says” (Exod. xxiii. 9),

“T thank you for your kind feeling,” said Carl, “but
indeed I am suffering very few of the troubles of a
foreign boy just now. It was rather different when I
first arrived, but a text in the same good book often
came into my mind when I was walking among the

crowds in the city: ‘The Lord doth execute the judg-
ment of the fatherless and widow, and LOVETH THE
STRANGER in giving him food and raiment’” (Deut.
x. 18),

“Well said, my boy! !” said Donald, smiling and
. patting Carl on the shoulder; “keep up your courage,
and the day will come when you will feel as much at